Description
The remote Central Adirondack setting of Golden Beach Campground offers a relaxing, quiet beauty. The campsites offer privacy, and are large and well-forested. The campground offers a variety of recreational opportunities, including canoeing and boating, fishing, hiking, and bicycling.
Geography:
Golden Beach Campground is located on the southeast shore of 5935-acre Raquette Lake.
Recreation:
Activities include swimming, hiking, boating, and fishing. Fish present in Raquette Lake include lake trout, brook trout, white fish, smelt, smallmouth bass, sunfish, yellow perch, brown bullhead, sucker, and minnow.
Facilities:
The park offers tent and trailer sites, a picnic area with tables and fireplaces, restrooms with showers, a trailer dump station, a recycling center, handicapped accessibility, a sand beach, a swimming area, a bathhouse, and hiking trails.
Nearby Attractions:
The Adirondack Park Visitors Interpretive Center at Newcomb is 30 miles east on N.Y.S. Route 28. The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake is located 8 miles east on N.Y.S. Route 28 and features the History of the Adirondack Park. The village of Raquette Lake is 3 miles west on N.Y.S. Route 28, and offers restaurants, boat rentals, and scenic excursions on Raquette Lake with dining on board. Golf courses are available in the villages of Indian Lake and Inlet.